Beverlee’s Bluff: the Real Threat to ASU

This is a cross-post from Watching Adams “an effort to communicate information, conduct investigative journalism, and facilitate discourse about Adams State University (ASU), a state-supported liberal arts university in Alamosa, Colorado.”  It was researched, written, and revised by a team of faculty and staff at Adams State, working with Danny Ledonne and appears here with permission.…

Looking Back to 1915

I was doing some online research and happened to follow a link to the Wikipedia entry for the major events of 1915. What follows is a selectively edited version of that list of events. In some ways, the mix of events seems strangely familiar. In many other ways, however, it is very clear that the…

The Importance of Community Colleges and Their Faculty

In his article in the November-December issue of Academe, “Community Colleges in the AAUP,” Paul Davis turns our attention to the evolving role of community colleges. Having taught for almost thirty years at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, he has seen dramatic changes in the student population and in policy makers’ expectations of how community colleges…

A Changing Landscape for Unionization at Private Institutions?

In her article in the November-December Academe, “Improving the Legal Landscape for Unionization at Private Colleges and Universities,” AAUP general counsel Risa L. Lieberwitz considers the legacy of the US Supreme Court’s 1980 decision in NLRB v. Yeshiva University. Because it held that faculty members’ autonomy and involvement in decision-making puts them in the category…

The Liberal Arts and Triangular Citizenship

This is a guest post by Jeffrey Scheuer, the author of two books on media and politics and a work in progress about critical thinking and liberal education. His website is at http://www.jscheuer.com. Given the obvious importance of STEM learning and vocational education, why should anyone bother to study the liberal arts? The argument, as I suggest…